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Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…unched the cyclical flow of the return home of millions. The crisis of 12 million “illegal” immigrants is one of our own creation. The missing clergy could also lay healing hands on a body politic fevered by xenophobia. These churches all proclaim a universal message of brotherhood. Indeed, the enormous overseas constituencies of the LDS, Seventh-day Adventist, Assemblies of God, and United Pentecostal Church International outnumber the domestic m…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…here, too. Start by recognizing the business interests that make us hire “illegals” for child care, elder care, restaurant work, and more. Those who think there are too many Mexicans here might want to rethink the United States’ trade and aid policies to Mexico so that it too could be an economically viable place for people to live. That would be an extravagant, realistic creativity. Religious people are also pragmatic people. Being pro-Spirit do…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…TV talk shows offered up well-known Tibetan poets and politicians to be grilled by combative anchors for not following the “law of the land.” And at least on this issue, the Indian news media failed disastrously by acting as stenographers, indiscriminately taking in whatever was fed to them by intelligence officials, police, and local politicians. Journalists seemed to become the medium through which any analyst and former official with a view on…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…nts rarely begin brightly. If they are allowed to begin at all. If the Egyptian military can find alternate sources of support, then fine. Let them. Good for them. They had years and years to run Egypt, and made not only nothing of it, but took whatever potential it had and drowned it in the Nile. Those who failed so many times before are not suddenly going to succeed. Because, as we saw yesterday, and as we saw so many times before, the Egyptian…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…specifically ensures that even the union workers in crowded meatpacking facilities will be forced to continue working without the normal workplace health & safety protections. In this dire context the need for careful language and scrupulous truth-telling among the leaders on the liberal side should be self-evident. But clarity and scrupulosity are rarely what we get. Take, for example, three of the slogans that fall so easily from the lips of hig…

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

…vie) I have the bonafides. My mother is from Acadiana country, St. Martinsville La., and I grew up going to the Evangeline Oak during my long summers at my grandmother’s house. I know Creoles and Cajun life pretty well. So Disney’s take on life in New Orleans and the bayou is at best a cheap commercial ploy, and at worst, a revisionist religious and racist nightmare. Yes, I know, it’s just fantasy, right? But your kids are going to be in my classr…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…dly, the Catholic bishops collapse all types of contraception into two “easily” available forms: birth control pills and condoms. Some oral contraceptives are available in generic forms and cost as little as $10 at big-box retailers. But many newer kinds aren’t and cost upwards of $40 month. Women need to use the form of oral contraceptive, or contraception in general, that best suits their personal and medical needs, not what happens to be on the…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…I’m not concerned with the former. A venal majority will do just fine. Until the numbers are there, moral or otherwise, we will continue to repeat the sin of senseless bloodshed. This will not change soon. God will have to forgive us again. We must live with the awful burden of new life: the birthday of a fatherless child, a polled tree, the weight of the sun and the breeze, the solid ache in your chest that knows things might have been different…

Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…Now, those speculation-and-spending fueled good times are gone. That volatility does not treat mild-mannered Mormon politicians well: be they Reids, or Romneys. Just last week, Jan Shipps, a longtime scholar and canny observer of Mormon experience, wagered that Angle would beat Romney if he were on the ticket. I think she’s right. What’s happening in Nevada is the ugly down side of a speculation-and-spending fueled boom cycle, with many voters lo…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…nisms are designed until they are taught otherwise. Faced with a fish, a child will tend to believe that an intelligent being designed the fish. Axe’s main argument is that life is too complicated to have arisen by chance. Given how many ways there are to arrange Legos randomly, and given how few of those random Lego arrangements would form a functional figure like Hogwarts or the Millennium Falcon, the chance of something like the Millennium Falc…